Hong Kong Stubborn - Chapter 29

At the beginning of the filming of “Killer Couples”, it was exceptionally smooth.

The main supporting roles who played the negative BOSS in the film are all members of the Hong family, Yuan Hua, Yuan Qiu and Yuan Biao. Naturally, he has good skills and good acting skills. The most important thing is his serious attitude.

In this era, an artist who is used to being a martial arts stand-in for the red pants will cherish the main role in a play, and it must be an all-out effort.

What surprised all the crew most was that the actor with the least number of NGs since the start of the work was actually an army sister who had never had any acting experience.

If it is said that she is so good at dealing with artistes and artist training teachers all the year round, that would be wrong. At least her rivalry with Luo Junyan is not only embodied in expressions, attitudes, movements, but also emotions, emotions, and intonation, which require a lot of practical experience to master the essence of the performance, but the director just can’t pick out the slightest fault. It’s too smooth and natural.

On the 5th day of booting up, when Brother Cheng came to report to sister army about the final negotiation result of car implantation advertising sponsor, he chatted with Director Cheng during lunch break and said a classic quotation to solve the puzzle: It is not surprising that the army can have such a performance. Isn’t this just the perfect performance. Otherwise, if you try another actor, the number of NG will roll up immediately.

Of course, in front of the army sister, Cheng Ge expressed his envy, jealousy and hatred of talented actors, which belonged to the category of advanced flattery.

Sister Army ignored his gossip about running the train, but she still praised the serious business, and the final car sponsor was BMW of Germany.

The feelings in this script are too appetizing for BMW. The four elements of passion, passion, personality and fashion are all included. BMW ended up paying 600,000 Hong Kong dollars, which was not the highest bid among car sponsors, but BMW offered an additional contract of the nature of gambling.

The two parties agreed that as long as the box office of “Killer Couple File” exceeds 20 million Hong Kong dollars (a disguised count of the number of viewers). Then BMW will hire the male and female protagonists to shoot a new TV commercial with a sky-high price of 1.2 million Hong Kong dollars for advertising production. The production and placement of the advertising will be fully responsible for the snowman era.

This additional contract is very appetizing for Brother Cheng. The stakes are big enough, and the prerequisite of 20 million box office is ignored by others.

The 1.2 million advertising fee is not allocated to Shaw, and it is completely the advertising revenue of the Snowman era. Excluding the advertising time paid to the TV station, the production cost is basically negligible, mainly because the male and female protagonists in the commercials are not paid.

Sister Army agrees with his idea very much. As for why Luo Junyan agreed to shoot commercials for free? After going to the United States for 20,000 yuan for three days, sister army didn’t mention it afterwards, so everyone owed it.

The shooting of “Killer Couple File” entered the third week, and the American McMullan Firearms Company dispatched personnel to Xiangjiang to carry the necessary firearms according to the agreement. Some firearms are not accessible to people casually, such as the TAC-50 heavy automatic sniper rifle.

At this shooting point, the progress immediately slowed down, and it was all thrilling acrobatic action scenes.

Especially in the interior scenes of the villa built on the set, Sister Army and Luo Junyan flipped through the stunning shooting action scenes. Many shots could not be used as substitutes, which was very difficult to shoot.

“NG” followed Director Cheng yelled again, and the audience let out a long sigh.

Luo Junyan rubbed her lower waist, and sister Army put her elbow on her, and both came to the back of the camera.

A group of people surrounded the machine, and the stunt director Chen Yiyan frowned and said: “The action and shooting effects are still not completely synchronized, but it is much better than last time.”

Director Cheng showed them the replay, thought about it, and said, “This is already the tenth time NG, and the movement is too difficult, especially for the requirements of physical flexibility. I suggest using a stand-in. I will adjust the camera position. a bit.”

Everyone in Hong’s family class has never been exposed to this kind of concise and neat action, and the shot is a kung fu movie with a killer move, so the attitude of watching the shooting and actively learning is extra serious.

Yuen Biao said: “This is a two-camera shooting, and it is difficult to guarantee that you will not wear a surrogate. Also, in terms of size and appearance, sister army’s double is not very similar at first. Focusing shooting at such a close distance, the effect is achieved. It will suck.”

Sister Army said: “Director Cheng, I can. But can I adjust the script, I make the action, but the gun will be fired after a delay. This can solve the problem of synchronization, and secondly the heroine shoots at her husband. Shouldn’t there be such a little hesitation in her heart when she is in the middle of her life? She still loves her husband very much.”

Director Cheng thought about it for a moment, and then said to Luo Junyan: “It can be changed, but Ah Jun also needs to adjust.”

Luo Junyan has been thinking about it and said, “Cheng Dao, is this okay? I fired before the action, but deliberately missed it, so it makes more sense for sister army to show hesitation. I think, when showing love As a man, he should be more tolerant and proactive so that the audience is more receptive.”

Sister Army heard this and looked up at him unconsciously, but did not argue.

So this difficult action scene was successfully filmed.

A week of continuous action and stunt scenes left Sister Army and Luo Junyan scarred and exhausted.

Luo Junyan is closer to the action and stunt crews, and he really feels that it is not easy for these behind-the-scenes support personnel. He sincerely sighed that Jackie Chan was able to earn such a high salary, and there was absolutely no water.

When Luo Junyan was in his free time at night, he would take the Hong’s family class and the staff from the stunt company to go out for supper.

The members of the Hongjiaban group are still very reserved in communicating with strangers.

However, Jinbao Hong came to visit the class one night and was forced by Luo Junyan to invite him to have a drink. As a result, the two of them had nothing to say, so they chatted about the identity of Grandpa Luo Junyan.

This is different now, because these masters of the Seven Little Fortunes, Yu Zhanyuan, often mentioned the famous Cantonese opera master Luo Yuchan.

The two famous opera actors met in Guangzhou when Zhanyuan left the mainland in 1940.

At that time, Luo Yuchan’s reputation was much greater, but he was righteous, and Yu Zhanyuan was impressed by the demeanor of a courteous corporal. And Luo Yuchan gave Yu Zhanyuan an emergency donation to settle down in Hong Kong as part of his parting, and his gratitude is naturally deeply remembered in Zhanyuan’s heart.

Sammo Hung really didn’t expect that Luo Junyan would be Luo Yuchan’s grandson, so two quick-tempered men immediately rushed to Yu Zhanyuan’s home. Yu Zhanyuan held Luo Junyan’s hand all night, with tears on his face, and it was agreed that he must visit Luo Yuchan’s children and grandchildren in person.

Since this incident happened, Hong Jiaban has been close to Luo Junyan too much. In their eyes, Luo Junyan has turned into his own person, and he doesn’t have to say some polite words in a false way, and he has less caress when filming.

The locomotive scenes of “The Killer Couple” are all done by Chen Yiyan’s apprentice Ke Shouliang as a stand-in.

The film is limited by cost and technology, and the scene design of cars and locomotives has been streamlined. But the difficulty is still not small, just to get the permission to close a street for half an hour, the management fee was 200,000.

This kind of stunt scene of cars chasing on the street is a feat that has created a first in film history in Hong Kong, and no one has done it before.

The director squeezed a sweat before filming started. Everyone on the crew prayed anxiously that there would be no accidents and too many NGs, because the application time is limited.

Fortunately, the special effects company is very well prepared, Ke Shouliang is really life-threatening, this guy’s psychological quality is super strong.

Luo Junyan and sister army are also highly concentrated, and the whole shooting went smoothly, which is not easy for novices.

At the end of the filming, Director Cheng found Luo Junyan, who was the producer, and said cautiously: “A Jun, if you add a scene of a car overturning and exploding, the effect will be more perfect and shocking.”

Luo Junyan asked: “Explore on the street? The government won’t agree?”

Director Cheng explained: “The footage of the car overturning can be taken on the street to give a panoramic view, and then go to the set to copy this small street scene, and the explosion can be shot on the set. If the car is used, the first few cars can be dragged to replace the scrap cars, but The one in front of the camera will be real only at the scene.”

Luo Junyan was dizzy instantly. The speed of making an action movie burns money too fast, and the cost can’t be controlled, and I hesitate for a while.

Director Cheng also knows that strong people are difficult, and said: “A Jun, please think about it. In fact, the scene without explosion is also very good. I will shoot the scene after the car rollover first, and you can decide whether to add it or not.”

Luo Junyan nodded, and after he left, turned his head to look at sister army sitting on the street, and asked: “Sister army, you just heard it. Do you think it’s okay to add the explosion scene?”

Sister Army rubbed the muscles on her calf and said, “Do you still have money?”

Luo Junyan held his forehead, closed his eyes, and said, “Now it’s overspend, and if we add this scene, the production cost will have to exceed 6 million. I personally only have a deposit of 500,000, which is enough to take out, but There is no money for publicity.”

Sister Army was so tired today that she was a little grumpy. She bit her lower lip and said bitterly: “Then why are you telling me this? Ask Brother Cheng to borrow it.”

Luo Junyan sat next to her and said, “The budget for the propaganda cost is 1 million, the price quoted by my master. I started to borrow money from him at the time. drop to lowest.”

Sister Army turned her head and glanced at him, and asked, “I lend you 1 million. What benefit do you give me?”

Luo Junyan thought for a long time, and babbled: “Would you like to calculate the bank interest? I’m talking about the bank loan interest.”

Sister Army looked directly at him and said: “Luo Junyan, I planned to buy a property for investment in 1979, but I used it to make a movie for you. My plan was frustrated. I started a company at the end of the 1980s, and I plan to buy an office building. The property for self-use and renting out, because I have to give you a guarantee, I was disturbed again. Because of you, how much I have lost in the past two years, do you know? This time I borrowed money and repaid a little more interest. Are you really telling me? Tell you, I have no money to lend you.”

Luo Junyan hurriedly took her arm and said: “Sister army, you at least pay the price? I will agree to you as much as you want.”

Sister Army looked at the crew in the distance, worried about being misunderstood, frowned, and hurriedly said in a low voice: “Let go. Why are you so rascal now?”

Luo Junyan pulled away his hands and said, “Sister army, you have to make a provision? How can you be willing to borrow money?”

Sister Army thought for a while and replied: “Okay. The planning book proposed by the Snowman Age for the Taiwan Sapphire Big Cabaret has been approved by Yang Dengkui. According to the agreement of the planning book, Yang Dengkui is only responsible for the venue renovation and artist contract of the Big Cabaret, and others. All matters are left to Snowman Times.”

Luo Junyan frowned slightly, feeling a little uncomfortable, and asked: “Sister army, you and Master are responsible for the order, and I will definitely not ask for the introduction fee.”

Sister Army ignored his interruption and said: “For the Taiwan project, the Snowman Age has many ideas. I need your unconditional support.”

Luo Junyan seriously considered it, and after a while, he said, “Sister army, is this count as an order you gave me? Unconditional support is equivalent to working for the Snowman Era for free. According to my worth, the loss will be all It’s more than 1 million.”

Sister Army nodded, and said relaxedly: “I didn’t order you, but you asked me to make terms. It seems that I disagree. It happens to be easy for both of us.”

Luo Junyan was anxious and said: “Sister army, I promise you, we’re all set. You can transfer to my account within 1 million three days, don’t worry too much.”

Sister Army looked at him like a fool and said: “The Snowman Times is the agency’s agency for the film. Why is it so troublesome to transfer money? I will supervise Brother Cheng to make the plan detailed and try not to let you borrow money. .”

Luo Junyan looked at her blankly, feeling like a fool.